somewhere along the line

Idioms  

1. At some point in time, as in Somewhere along the line I'm sure I climbed that mountain. [Mid-1900s]

---

Example Sentences

But, she says, "somewhere along the line you have to press the pause button... and say this is your Christmas. It's a day in my life. What do you want?"

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

But somewhere along the line, economics was all but consumed by math, and things everybody had always known—that humans are fickle, emotional, bad at reasoning, captives of their prior mistakes, etc.—were forgotten or cast aside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Part of that is a consequence of getting older, but it might also be that we can’t eat that much because somewhere along the line we made a conscious practice of not eating that much.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2023

But then, somewhere along the line, that changed.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2023

But if he’d gotten to the training center in the first place, it surely meant that somewhere along the line he probably lied.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel